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03042aam a2200361 i 4500 001 D19078CE166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191204010031 008 190421s2019 scu b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019018473 020 $a 1643360191 020 $a 9781643360195 035 $a (OCoLC)1097611917 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3568.A698 $b Z87 2019 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Spill, FreÌdeÌrique $e author. 245 14 $a The radiance of small things in Ron Rash's writing / $c FreÌdeÌrique Spill. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b The University of South Carolina Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xi, 280 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : portrait of an American writer -- Eureka Mill, or trailing family trajectories -- Finding one's voice in Among the Believers" -- Raising the dead : the threat of oblivion -- Amy's men, or wounded masculinity in One foot in Eden -- Antagonistic representations in Saints at the River -- Figures of violence in The world Made Straight : the efficacy of indirectness -- Lady Macbeth in the Smoky Mountains : Shakespearean traces in Serena -- Elemental poetry : Waking, or "the wind's harsh sibilance" -- "Nothing but shadow land" : landscapes and mindscapes in The Cove -- Something rich and strange : short story writing in the new South -- "The world's understory," or renewing wonder in Above the Waterfall. 520 $a "This is the e-mail autoreply that, until recently, one got within minutes when trying to get in touch with Professor Rash at Western Carolina University--a bouncing message that apparently experienced little change over time. Over the past fifteen years or so, Ron Rash has, indeed, mostly been either writing or editing a book, or touring both the United States and the world--obviously not his favorite aspect of his job as a writer, as implied by the comparison with comatose Edgar Allan Poe. He obviously enjoys cultivating the myth of his being a mountain man who is more familiar with the company of bats, frogs, or bears, for that matter, than with modern technology. What this sketchy self-portrait also reveals is that the writer has a particularly keen ear for sounds; it seems he cannot help producing assonance and alliteration (erase, displace, replace, deface): when receiving this message, there is no doubt one was being bounced back, but at least it was in music"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Rash, Ron, $d 1953- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Rash, Ron, $d 1953- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00339775 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a American fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191204012059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D19078CE166311EA9B100A4E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search